Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on DataDog?

Posted by mattevenson on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:33PM
from the ask-hn dept.

We're looking at APM tools and the default seems to be DataDog but frankly we're experiencing a bit of sticker shock.

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Re:Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on Data... by throwaway888abc on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:40PM (#31897962)

Maybe Netdata will work for you. Very happy user.

https://www.netdata.cloud/

https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/#apm-appli...

Hosted / Selfhosted

Demo instance: https://london.my-netdata.io/

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Re:Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on Data... by mattevenson on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:43PM (#31898014)

Thanks! I had not heard of Netdata before. I'll take a look to see if it meets our needs.

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Re:Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on Data... by lupimiguel on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:08PM (#31898342)

This is the way.

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Re:Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on Data... by codegeek on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:52PM (#31898127)

THere was a YC backed company here that was supposedly "Open Source DataDog" [0] . But looks like they got acquired by Gitlab and seems like technically they are still running that project [1]. I haven't used them personally but worth a look.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25991485

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/opstrace/opstrace

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Re:Ask HN: How much should a startup expect to spend on Data... by twunde on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:04PM (#31898294)

In general APM/observability tools are expensive. The good news is that there are a lot of choices including open source tooling like opentelemetry, sentry, vector.

You can reduce the cost somewhat by sampling traces, and by only shipping logs of Info or above (ie remove debug logs)

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